Teijiro Toyoda

Teijiro Toyoda (7 August 1885-21 November 1961) was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 18 July to 18 October 1941, succeeding Yosuke Matsuoka and preceding Shigenori Togo.

Biography
Teijiro Toyoda was born on 7 August 1885 in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. In 1905 he graduated from the Imperial Japanese Navy Academy and served in the Russo-Japanese War, and he studied in the United Kingdom as a part of the exchange program that was a result of the Anglo-Japanese alliance of 1906. During World War I, he commanded some Japanese ships that patrolled the Pacific Ocean to prevent the German Empire's U-boats from attacking Allied shipping in the region, and in 1920 he was promoted to commander. In 1923, he served as a naval attache to London and in 1935 became Vice-Admiral, being given command of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service in November 1938. He was made Minister of Foreign Affairs on 18 July 1941, and he was the foreign affairs minister for three months. He resigned with Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe in October 1941, and he worked in the steel and iron industry. After the end of World War II, he was not tried for any war crimes, as he had advocated peace before the war. He was chairman of a Japan-Brazil joint development company in 1958, and in 1961 he died of kidney cancer at the age of 76.